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NTTE ST S TENT E. I. FRAlSSINT AND H. E. REBOUL, 0F PARIS, FRANCE.

TICKET-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 13,817, dated November 20, 1855.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that we, EDOUARD PIERRE FRAISSINET and HENRI EMILE REBOUL, Route dOrleans, Montrouge, Paris, in the Empire of France, gentlemen, have invented a certain new and useful Apparatus or Instrument for the Preservation and Safe Custody of Railway or other Portable Tickets, which apparatus we call Garde Billet, and that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the principle or character which distinguishes our invention from all other things before known and of the usual manner of making, modifying, and using the same.

Our invention consists in constructing a small and portable apparatus to insure, especially to railway travelers, or others obliged to provide themselves with tickets, a safe and commodious means of preserving, keeping, securing and exhibiting them. The apparatus can be placed in the buttonhole of a coat or in any other convenient and visible part of a garment. It has the further advantage of sparing the traveler or exhibitor the inconvenience of the frequent showing of his ticket to the railway or other officials.

The most secure and commodious form we have adopted to carry out the principle of our invention consists in a stamped and twisted metallic wire, as represented in Figures l and 3 of the annexed drawing, which represent front views, and Figs. 2 and 4 side views of the apparatus. In these drawings the same letters of reference represent parts which are similar. The section of the wire is flattened in A, so as to form a triangle at B, the upper part of the triangle being turned toward the interior of the clasp c which at its two extremities is bent outward. rlhe bent part acting in conjunction with the spring of the two arms B B, maintains the ticket in its place and prevents all lateral displacement, while the curved extremities of the arms B' B facilitate the easy and rapid introduction and withdrawal at the required moment.

A small chain F Figs. 3 and 4 is inserted in the twisted part D and is attached in G to a snatlle which serves to suspend the apparatus to the buttonhole of a coat,or to any other part of a garment, a twisted wire, Figs. 1 and Q, bent in E serves for the same purpose.

The application of this instrument extends to every kind of card or ticket which require to be presented and exhibited, such as for omnibuses, steamboats, bazaars, exhibitions and theaters.

And having now described the nature of our said invention and the manner of putting the same into execution we wish it to be understood that we do not confine ourselves to the forms hereinbefore described, as they may be varied without deviating from the principle herein described, but- `What we claim, is-

The construction of an apparatus or instrument for carrying, securing and exhibiting tickets as herein before described and referred to in the figures of the drawing.

ED. FRAISSINET. H. E. REBOUL.

1Witnesses:

L DE FONTAINE MOREAU,

. A. GILBEE. 

